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🔮 Protocol Opportunities

Name	Status	Quarter	DRI	Date	OKR
Implement it (MVP)	✅	2023Q1	Kubuxu	February 20, 2023 → February 24, 2023
Integration with existing libraries	✅	2023Q2	Kubuxu
User Friendly API	✅	2023Q1	Kubuxu	February 27, 2023 → March 10, 2023
First prototype for inclusion proofs during computation of CommP	✅	2023Q1	Kubuxu	February 20, 2023 → February 24, 2023
Kuba will complete the two sections (security and design reasoning)	✅		Kubuxu
‣ Commitment Scheme format agreement	✅	2022Q4	Kubuxu	March 19, 2023 → March 19, 2023
‣ Software for generation of data segments inclusion proof	✅	2023Q2	Kubuxu	February 12, 2023 → March 24, 2023
‣ Support for verifying data segment inclusion proofs on-chain	✅	2023Q1	Kubuxu	February 12, 2023 → March 17, 2023
Data Prepapers API Standard	🔴	2023Q1	Kubuxu
SubPieceCID Registry smart contract with Merkle trees verification	🔴	2023Q2	Kubuxu
Support Delta (ex-Estuary) integration	✅	2023Q2	Kubuxu	May 29, 2023 → June 2, 2023	KR11: 3 players using verifiable off-chain data aggregation and market for subpieces
Support DagHouse integration	🔵	2023Q2	Kubuxu	March 15, 2023 → June 15, 2023	KR11: 3 players using verifiable off-chain data aggregation and market for subpieces
Support FVM via On-chain Aggregator	🔵	2023Q3	Kubuxu	May 15, 2023 → June 29, 2023	KR11: 3 players using verifiable off-chain data aggregation and market for subpieces
Support Lighthouse integration	🔵	2023Q2	Kubuxu	May 29, 2023 → June 17, 2023	KR11: 3 players using verifiable off-chain data aggregation and market for subpieces
proposal	✅	2023Q2	Deleted User	May 2, 2023 → June 2, 2023	KR5: Launch Cryptonet Intelligence and publish 3 reports on Filecoin to align opportunities in the network
Publish blog post	✅	2023Q2	Deleted User	May 8, 2023 → June 9, 2023
SP ROI calculator connected to data sources	✅	2023Q3	Nicola	March 20, 2023 → June 30, 2023	KR5: Launch Cryptonet Intelligence and publish 3 reports on Filecoin to align opportunities in the network
Protocol Design and implementation	🔴
Doc on NI-PoRep with Nova (by FilCrypto)	🔵
‣ NI-PoRep technical analysis	🔵
‣ Analyze NI-PoRep risks	🔵
NI-PoRep FIP discussion	🔵
‣ Explore NI-PoRep w/ ad hoc circuits	🔵
CryptoEcon Feedback	🔵
Estimate input blowup	🔵
Estimate proving costs wrt today considering SN improvements and NI Proving overhead	✅
Estimate gas costs compared with today	✅
Analyze of SaaS benefits	🔵
Estimating Proving costs overhead	Not started
Determine a killer application for PoA	Not started
Doc clarifying PoA and FIL+ interaction	Not started
Fil-PoA FIP discussion out	Not started
Fil-PoA FIP out	Not started
Optimistic Commitment Translation	Not started	2023Q4	Kubuxu	August 1, 2023 → December 29, 2023
‣ 🎯 Direct data onboarding & FIL+ technical design	🔵	2023Q3	Alex North		KR9: Remove the top bottleneck for data onboarding via ready to deploy FIPs by reducing costs and reduce complexity (we will decide based on prioritization: e.g. early deal activation, separation of deals from sectors)
Proposal/FIP for deal collateral (discuss #719)	✅	2023Q2	Alex North
Implementation of direct FIL+	🔵	2023Q3	Alex North
‣ Replacement Sealing Forcing Function & PoRep Security Policy (FIP-47prime)	✅	2023Q3	Kubuxu	October 1, 2022 → June 19, 2023	KR1: No known unaddressed high severity protocol and cryptography issues (including Cron safety) KR3: An updated security model for Proof of Space and QAP pricing security is published
FIP for Synthetic PoRep	✅	2023Q1	Irene	March 31, 2023 → April 7, 2023
Draft ideas to make SnapDeal cheaper	✅	2023Q1	Luca	February 10, 2023
FIP-0047 and code are ready	✅	2022Q4	Kubuxu	October 1, 2022 → December 22, 2022	KR1: No known unaddressed high severity protocol and cryptography issues (including Cron safety)
Planning session to understand timeline	🔴	2023Q1	Kubuxu
Create the model for cost/profit to compare CC sector upgrade with deal sector strategy	✅	2023Q1	Luca	March 20, 2023 → April 1, 2023	KR7: Leverage CC-Sector upgrade pipeline to onboard XXX storage (via SaaS, Snapdealv2, etc)
Report about model and findings	✅	2023Q2	Luca	May 1, 2023 → June 12, 2023	KR7: Leverage CC-Sector upgrade pipeline to onboard XXX storage (via SaaS, Snapdealv2, etc)
‣ Removal of Batch Balancer through Onboarding Fees	🟡	2023Q3	Kubuxu	June 12, 2023 → July 25, 2023	KR9: Remove the top bottleneck for data onboarding via ready to deploy FIPs by reducing costs and reduce complexity (we will decide based on prioritization: e.g. early deal activation, separation of deals from sectors)
‣ Fil-PoA: Filecoin Proof of Access	🟡	2023Q4	Luca
‣ Understand if Fil-PoA is worth Pursuing	Not started
‣ ⭕ Non Interactive PoRep	🔵	2023Q4	Luca
Align with Fil-Crypto on circuit compatibility	🔵
NI-PoRep FIP	🔵
Deploy NI-PoRep	Not started
‣ 🤝 Filecoin cross-chain interoperability	🟡	2023Q4	Alex North		KR10: Concrete proposal to enable Export Filecoin into other chains
‣ L2 Deal Market	🟡	2023Q4	Kubuxu	May 8, 2023 → October 31, 2023	KR9: Remove the top bottleneck for data onboarding via ready to deploy FIPs by reducing costs and reduce complexity (we will decide based on prioritization: e.g. early deal activation, separation of deals from sectors)
‣ Scaling FIL+ VC Allocation	🟣	2023Q3		May 1, 2023 → June 30, 2023
‣ Verifiable Off-chain Data Aggregation	✅	2023Q2	Kubuxu		KR11: 3 players using verifiable off-chain data aggregation and market for subpieces
‣ 🦿 Synthetic PoRep	✅	2023Q2	Irene	March 24, 2023 → June 30, 2023
Built-in actors API for user-programmed actors	✅	2022Q4	Kubuxu
‣ (security) Short term fix for Cron	✅	2023Q1	Alex North		KR1: No known unaddressed high severity protocol and cryptography issues (including Cron safety)
‣ 📡 Cryptonet intelligence - Observability	🔴	2023Q2	Deleted User	May 2, 2023	KR5: Launch Cryptonet Intelligence and publish 3 reports on Filecoin to align opportunities in the network
Working group kickoff	✅	2023Q2	Deleted User	May 29, 2023 → June 5, 2023	KR5: Launch Cryptonet Intelligence and publish 3 reports on Filecoin to align opportunities in the network
‣ 🥁 SnapDeal v2	🔴	2023Q2	Luca	March 31, 2023
‣ Data Onboarding Pipeline	🔴	2023Q2	Irene		KR9: Remove the top bottleneck for data onboarding via ready to deploy FIPs by reducing costs and reduce complexity (we will decide based on prioritization: e.g. early deal activation, separation of deals from sectors)
FIP for Deal Pre-activation (based on ad-hoc collateral)	🔴	2023Q2	Irene
Gather initial feedback about the design for deals larger than sectors	✅	2023Q2	Irene	April 3, 2023 → May 1, 2023
Identify opportunities	✅	2023Q2	Irene	February 1, 2023 → May 22, 2023
Background research on consensus/snapshot/finality options	🟡	2023Q2	Alex North		KR10: Concrete proposal to enable Export Filecoin into other chains
Design & analysis for consensus changes for interop	Not started	2023Q3	Alex North		KR10: Concrete proposal to enable Export Filecoin into other chains
‣ 🏦 Pledge Collateral Shortfall	🔴	2023Q2	Alex North	March 17, 2023 → June 30, 2023	KR6: Short-term liquidity issue addressed (pledge shortfall)
‣ Repeatedly updatable storage ("Re-snap")	🔴	2023Q2	Kubuxu
(advising) 🍝 FilFil: PeSto and Filecoin Archive	🔴	2023Q2	Irene	March 31, 2023
Make aggregation needed in NI-PoRep competitive wrt single proofs	Not started
Address Concers about Network Takeover and align with Leadership	🔵
Define the mechanism for charging fees	🔵	2023Q3	Kubuxu
Align on the purpose of batch balancer and onboarding fees	🔵	2023Q3	Kubuxu
Strategy and roadmap update with Andrew and David	🔴	2023Q3	Deleted User	July 25, 2023 → August 4, 2023
New dashboards and queries	🔴	2023Q3	Deleted User	June 1, 2023 → July 31, 2023
Implement a first version for concrete benchmarks	🟣	2022Q3
Technical design for deal collateral / data termination	✅	2023Q2	Alex North
Technical design for direct FIL+	✅	2023Q2	Alex North
Proposal/FIP for direct FIL+	🔵	2023Q3	Alex North
alignment on Broker ↔ SP side of the market	Not started	2023Q2	Kubuxu	June 5, 2023 → June 16, 2023	KR9: Remove the top bottleneck for data onboarding via ready to deploy FIPs by reducing costs and reduce complexity (we will decide based on prioritization: e.g. early deal activation, separation of deals from sectors)
Document for L2 Deal Market	🔵	2023Q2	Kubuxu	May 15, 2023 → June 6, 2023	KR9: Remove the top bottleneck for data onboarding via ready to deploy FIPs by reducing costs and reduce complexity (we will decide based on prioritization: e.g. early deal activation, separation of deals from sectors)
‣ Support integration of PoDSI	🔵	2023Q3	Kubuxu	May 15, 2023 → June 29, 2023	KR9: Remove the top bottleneck for data onboarding via ready to deploy FIPs by reducing costs and reduce complexity (we will decide based on prioritization: e.g. early deal activation, separation of deals from sectors)
Publish specs for public discussion	✅	2023Q2	Alex North	April 12, 2023 → May 20, 2023
Implement the model	✅	2023Q2	Luca	April 10, 2023 → May 1, 2023	KR7: Leverage CC-Sector upgrade pipeline to onboard XXX storage (via SaaS, Snapdealv2, etc)
Synthetic PoRep is ready to be deployed	✅	2023Q2	Irene	May 8, 2023 → June 30, 2023
Obtain cost estimation for the different solutions	✅	2023Q2	Luca	April 3, 2023
Documentation	✅	2023Q2	Kubuxu
Publish FIP-0047 replacement (FIP-47’)	✅	2023Q2	Kubuxu	April 10, 2023 → June 19, 2023	KR3: An updated security model for Proof of Space and QAP pricing security is published KR1: No known unaddressed high severity protocol and cryptography issues (including Cron safety)
Figure out design to avoid FIP-0047 after all	✅	2023Q1	Kubuxu	January 10, 2023 → March 15, 2023	KR1: No known unaddressed high severity protocol and cryptography issues (including Cron safety)
Code	✅	2023Q1	Alex North
Create the FIP for SnapDeal v2	🔴	2023Q2	Luca	April 2, 2023
Gather initial feedback from SPs	✅	2023Q2	Luca	March 31, 2023
Short-term FIP is shipped	✅	2023Q1	Alex North
Short-term FIP is in the public	✅	2023Q1	Alex North
Gather initial feedback from SP	✅	2023Q1	Alex North	May 17, 2023 → May 24, 2023
Resolve int overflow TODOs	✅	2023Q2	Kubuxu
Export Format	✅	2023Q2	Kubuxu
Storage Format	✅	2023Q2	Kubuxu	February 27, 2023 → March 10, 2023
Testing	✅	2023Q2	Kubuxu	February 27, 2023 → March 10, 2023

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📖 Research Enablers

Name	Status	Quarter	DRI	Date	OKR
Have 5 Network Grants	✅	2022Q4
Have 5 more Network Grants and 1 External Event	🔴	2023Q1
Have 5 more Network Grants and 1 more External Event	🔴	2023Q2
Have 5 more Network Grants	🔴	2023Q3
‣ Testudo77 v0.1: Initial performance prediction	✅	2022Q4	Deleted User
‣ Testudo77 v0.2: Basic research done	✅	2022Q4	Deleted User
‣ Testudo81 v0.3: De-risking Filecoin deployment	✅	2023Q1	Deleted User
‣ Testudo81 v1: Ready for writing proofs	🔴	2023Q2	Deleted User
‣ Testudo81 Filecoin Proofs live on testnet	🔴	2023Q2	Deleted User
‣ Testudo81 Filecoin Proofs live on mainnet	🔴	2023Q3	Deleted User
Testudo is audited	🔴	2023Q4		August 31, 2023
Testudo is launched into Filecoin	🔴	2023Q4		September 30, 2023
Filecoin Proofs are written for Testudo	🔴			May 31, 2023
FIP for adding support to Testudo Proofs	🔴			May 31, 2023
Paper is public	✅	2023Q2		March 1, 2023 → June 19, 2023
New proofs are live in Filecoin Testnet	🔴			June 30, 2023
Add Ability to support circuits	🔴	2023Q1		March 31, 2023
Verification circuit for Testudo	🔴	2023Q1		March 31, 2023
More optimizations if needed	🔴	2023Q2		April 30, 2023
Aggregation feature implemented	🔴	2023Q2		June 30, 2023
Trusted setup is finalized	🔴	2023Q2		May 31, 2023
Can we design a Trusted Setup for Testudo?	✅	2023Q1		February 28, 2023
Backward compatible solution BLS12-381 designed	✅	2023Q1		February 28, 2023
Can Bellperson speed ups make Testudo 4x faster than Groth16? (blst+GPU) (low risk)	✅	2023Q2	Deleted User	February 28, 2023
Will the final proof size and verification time be acceptable for Filecoin?	🔴	2023Q2	Deleted User	March 31, 2023
Small universal trusted setup	🔴	2023Q1		January 31, 2023
Establish if the protocol can be used to replace current FIL proofs	✅	2022Q4
Compare protocol to other SNARKS with universal trusted setup	✅	2022Q4
‣ Efficient SNARKs over Vector Committed data	🔴	2023Q2
Make portions of the Filecoin state proof friendly ❓	🔴	2023Q4
Efficient data updatability inside sectors ❓	🔴	2023Q4
Replace Merkle trees with VC in Filecoin PoRep ❓	🔴	2023Q4
Solve BDSC for Plonk with Caulk/Muppets/Baloo	🔴	2022Q4	Anca Nitulescu
Solve BDSC for Groth16(+Testudo) with Caulk	🔴	2022Q4
‣ Design of foundational Vector Commitment schemes	✅	2022Q3	Anca Nitulescu
	🔴	2023Q1	Anca Nitulescu
Implementation of the Lookup Table	🔴	2023Q2	Anca Nitulescu
Pebbling PoS: SDR and NSE improvements and tighter analysis	🔵	2023Q3		April 1, 2023 → June 30, 2023	KR2: A new team is assembled to propose a formal model, gather requirements and ship an early design for a new Proof of Space to de-risk SDR aging
PoS: new page for educational material	✅	2023Q2	Anca Nitulescu	May 8, 2023 → May 26, 2023	KR4: A new proof of space website with educational material attracts 10 different groups
	✅	2023Q3	Deleted User	June 5, 2023 → July 21, 2023	KR4: A new proof of space website with educational material attracts 10 different groups
	✅	2023Q2	Deleted User	June 5, 2023 → July 6, 2023	KR4: A new proof of space website with educational material attracts 10 different groups
‣ 🛠️ Enabling Filecoin Client Data Usage	🔴	2023Q3		May 20, 2023 → June 30, 2023	KR12: Demo of verifiable computation over Filecoin data
‣ ⚖️ Translations Proofs	🔴	2023Q2	Deleted User	March 24, 2023 → May 30, 2023	KR12: Demo of verifiable computation over Filecoin data
‣ 🔭 🛠️ New Proof of Space Constructions	🔵	2023Q3		March 1, 2023 → September 30, 2023	KR2: A new team is assembled to propose a formal model, gather requirements and ship an early design for a new Proof of Space to de-risk SDR aging
New paper with new results (includes Proof of Space Model and Technical Primer)	🔵	2023Q3		July 23, 2023 → October 15, 2023	KR2: A new team is assembled to propose a formal model, gather requirements and ship an early design for a new Proof of Space to de-risk SDR aging
‣ 🔭 Proof of Space: educational material	🔵	2023Q3	Anca Nitulescu	April 17, 2023 → May 26, 2023	KR4: A new proof of space website with educational material attracts 10 different groups
Outreach	✅	2023Q2	Anca Nitulescu	May 22, 2023 → August 4, 2023	KR4: A new proof of space website with educational material attracts 10 different groups
‣ 🛡️ Testudo	✅	2023Q2	Deleted User
‣ Network Grants Program paused	✅	2023Q1
‣ Vector Commitments for Proof of Space and Merkle Trees	🔴	2023Q4	Anca Nitulescu
Linear-map VC: unify all the great properties of different VC	✅	2022Q2	Anca Nitulescu
Caulk: Vector commitments that can have linkability property	✅	2022Q2	Anca Nitulescu
Muppets: Vector commitment that has trade-offs between computation and space	✅	2022Q3	Anca Nitulescu
Blog post on Testudo	✅	2023Q1		February 27, 2023 → March 27, 2023
‣ 🔍 Lookup SNARK (for SHA)	🔴	2023Q4	Anca Nitulescu
‣ Privacy-Preserving Content Routing	🔴	2022Q4	Anca Nitulescu
🖇️ New Vector Commitment	🔴		Deleted User
	Not started
Check future directions for how to apply VDF with Nicola	🟡			September 25, 2023 → October 5, 2023
Outreach: talk on Proofs of Space @ Latincrypt affiliated event	🔵	2023Q3		September 4, 2023 → October 3, 2023
Paper: more efficient rational proofs (grant)	🔵	2023Q3		June 1, 2023 → October 31, 2023
Minimal changes to Groth16 to make Signature of knowledge	Not started		Anca Nitulescu
Bring content from Proof of Space days online	Not started
Paper: Polynomial Evaluation for PoUS Execution Stage (grant)	🔵	2023Q3		April 1, 2023 → October 31, 2023
‣ Research explorations	🔵
Complete Background and Generic Proof of Space	🔵	2023Q3	Anca Nitulescu
Updated home page	✅	2023Q2	Anca Nitulescu	June 14, 2023 → July 6, 2023	KR4: A new proof of space website with educational material attracts 10 different groups
Interviews planning and video production setup	🔵	2023Q2	Deleted User	May 30, 2023 → July 31, 2023
‣ Possible avenues to radical New PoS (and new space-hardness assumptions)	🔵	2023Q3		May 15, 2023 → July 31, 2023	KR2: A new team is assembled to propose a formal model, gather requirements and ship an early design for a new Proof of Space to de-risk SDR aging
2nd iteration of the PoS website	✅	2023Q2	Anca Nitulescu	May 29, 2023 → June 7, 2023	KR4: A new proof of space website with educational material attracts 10 different groups
Onboarding devs on Testudo	🔴	2023Q2	Deleted User
➿ Curve Agnostic Hash Translation	✅	2023Q2	Deleted User	April 24, 2023 → May 10, 2023	KR12: Demo of verifiable computation over Filecoin data
➰ Direct Translation Exploration	✅	2023Q2	Deleted User	April 24, 2023 → May 10, 2023	KR12: Demo of verifiable computation over Filecoin data
Paper	✅	2023Q2		March 27, 2023 → May 31, 2023
‣ Outreach And Collaboration	✅	2023Q2	Deleted User	March 26, 2023 → April 7, 2023
The new doc needs feedback https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cuOeos7MT7ZAJWtPB3OS8us0v25fsHdp/view?usp=sharing	🔴	2022Q3	Nicola
New formal Research Statement	✅	2022Q3	Anca Nitulescu
Testudo77: Implementation: Batching + Aggregation	🔴	2023Q2
Create open problem page to open the problem to the community	🔴	2023Q1		March 13, 2023 → March 13, 2023
Theory: Computational commitment de-risked	✅	2023Q1		February 24, 2023
Theory: Aggregation protocol	✅	2023Q2
Code documentation	🔴	2023Q1	Mara Mihali	February 17, 2023

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📗 Intelligence

Name	Status	Quarter	DRI	Date	OKR
Analysis of network forks and power changes	🟡	2023Q3
‣ ↗️ [2023Q2] CC Sector Upgrade: Guidelines and Modeling	✅	2023Q2	Luca	March 20, 2023 → June 19, 2023	KR7: Leverage CC-Sector upgrade pipeline to onboard XXX storage (via SaaS, Snapdealv2, etc)
Technical Report Proof of Space in Filecoin	🔵	2023Q3	Irene	August 7, 2023 → August 18, 2023	KR3: An updated security model for Proof of Space and QAP pricing security is published
Cryptonet Intelligence website	Not started	2023Q3	Nicola	May 29, 2023 → June 9, 2023	KR5: Launch Cryptonet Intelligence and publish 3 reports on Filecoin to align opportunities in the network
	✅	2023Q2	Irene	May 1, 2023 → May 30, 2023	KR5: Launch Cryptonet Intelligence and publish 3 reports on Filecoin to align opportunities in the network
	🟡	2023Q3	Irene	June 13, 2023 → June 30, 2023	KR3: An updated security model for Proof of Space and QAP pricing security is published
	✅	2023Q2	Irene	March 20, 2023 → April 15, 2023	KR5: Launch Cryptonet Intelligence and publish 3 reports on Filecoin to align opportunities in the network
	✅	2023Q2	Irene	March 6, 2023 → March 31, 2023	KR5: Launch Cryptonet Intelligence and publish 3 reports on Filecoin to align opportunities in the network

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